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April 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “He goes off on long-winded, the West is evil, anti-Western rhetoric. He could do a whole intervention in 10 minutes of monotone.”
This time, however, diplomats noted Mr Jalili’s wholly different, “calm and constructive” approach. One said: “We had a whole day talking about the nuclear issue and only the nuclear issue.”
Baroness Ashton, the European Union’s high representative for foreign policy, who chairs the “P5 plus 1”, had a three-hour dinner with Mr Jalili on Friday night. After the talks, Lady Ashton described them as “constructive and useful”, adding: “We want now to move to a sustained process of serious dialogue, where we can take urgent practical steps to build confidence and lead on to compliance by Iran with all its international obligations.”
The two sides will meet again in Baghdad on May 23. Before then, two senior negotiators will try to hammer out concrete proposals. Helga Schmid, who serves as Lady Ashton’s deputy, will represent the “P5 plus 1”, while Ali Baqeri, a senior Iranian diplomat, will speak for Tehran.
But Mr Jalili brought no specific proposals to Istanbul and the gap between the two sides remains as wide as ever. “Our delight is well within bounds: it’s beer not champagne,” said one diplomat.
Iran insists on its right to continue enriching uranium, a sensitive process that could be used to make the material for a nuclear weapon. America, Britain and the other “P5 plus 1” countries, meanwhile, want Iran to obey six United Nations resolutions and stop enrichment.
Moreover, neither side trusts the other. Mr Jalili’s tone was conciliatory, but diplomats noted that he did not bring any concrete proposals to Istanbul. Nor did he accept the offer of a one-on-one meeting with his American counterpart, Wendy Sherman.
Instead, Mr Jalili repeated Iran’s insistence on enriching uranium, saying this was a “right” under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, adding: “Any right which is included in the NPT should be respected. Enrichment of uranium is one of those rights that every member state should benefit from for peaceful purposes.”
Mr Jalili spoke in front of a banner, hastily raised by his officials, reading: “Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for None.” This showed a gallery of photographs of five Iranian scientists, all of them killed by bomb attacks in Tehran allegedly masterminded by Israeli intelligence.
Diplomats are alert to the danger that Iran might try to use this new diplomatic effort to buy time for its nuclear programme to progress. They are deeply worried that Israel could lose patience and launch a unilateral strike to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.
These dangers must impose a time limit on the new effort to settle the issue. “We can’t be messing around like this at the end of the year,” said one diplomat.
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